What is recorded here

Seven ogham stones formed a narrow underground chamber near Coolmagort, hidden beneath a slight rise until workmen broke through in 1838. One cracked stone leaned on another, trapping human bones and skulls inside the dark chamber. Men filled the hole later, erasing the chamber while the stones still stand beside a public road. The dead are gone from the story, but their bones helped build the shape of the place.

A total of seven ogham stones were incorporated into a Man-made underground passage (KE065-078----), marked ‘Cave’ on the OS maps, discovered in 1838 by workmen building a field boundary across a slight rise in Dunloe Castle demesne... It was roofed by nine slabs, six of which bore ogham inscriptions. One of the larger ogham stones had cracked in antiquity and was supported by a seventh, which stood upright in the Man-made underground passage passage. A number of bones and skulls, some of which were reputedly human, were found in the Man-made underground passage. In 1940 the ogham stones were removed from the site by the OPW, and were erected close to a public roadway nearby. The Man-made underground passage was subsequently filled back and no surface trace remains. (A) This stone (present location KE065-041----) stands 1.2m high, and is up to .3m in width and .11m in thickness. It stood upside down in the Man-made underground passage passage supporting (2) (see KE065-078004-), which served as a lintel. Macalister (1945, 193, no. 199) read the inscription as: CUNACENA. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 863) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=199 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 11 February 2017

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